Salt and pepper holder.



' PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1908.

' Anon/vars.

J. T. STAPLETON..

SALT AND PEPPER HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22, 1908.

1 h I "x P. W I IJ J WITNESSES JOHN T. STAPLETON, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

slim: AND PEPPER HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8, 1908.

Application filed January 22, 1908. Serial No. 412,081.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN T. STAPLETON, a citizen of the United States, and residing .at

1 Jersey City, in the county of Hudson and State ofvNew Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Salt and Pepper Holders, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 0

- This invention relates to salt and pepper holders; and the objectthereof is to provide an improved combination device of this class adapted to serve both as a salt and epper holder and providedwith means w ereby either the .salt or the pepper may be discharged therefrom whenever desired, this result being accomplished by means of a novel cap mechanism, simple in construction and operat1on, the body of the devicebeing pro vided with a partition forming two se arate chambers or compartments in which sa t and pepper are place The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which;-

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of myimproved salt and pe per holder, Fig. 2 a plan view thereof, an ;Fig. 3 a sectional view slmllar tothat shown in Fig. 1, but showing one part thereof on an enlarged scale. i

In the practice of my invention, I provide a holder (1, composed preferably of glass and prov ded with a central vertical partition I) forming two separate com artments c and d,

in'one of which is laced t e salt as shown at e, and the other t e pep er as shown at f.

The holder (1 is provi ed with a metal cap g, hav ng a depending flange or rim g by which it 1s secured to the top of the holder 0,

and one side portion of the cap g over the chamber or compartment 0 is rovided with perforations h arranged in para lel transverse rows and the other side portion of said cap, over the chamber or compartment (1 is prosided-with perforations'i arranged in parallel and transverse rows, and the perforations h are larger than the perforations i.

Mounted beneath the cap g and movable transversely of the top of the hplder a and on the partition b is a shde plate or valve plate one side portion thereof with j, provided in which are arranged in parallel perforations h transverse rows and correspond with the per-.

forationsh in the cap g, and the other side portion of said plate is provided with perforations 01 arranged in parallel transverse rows and which correspond with the perforations 2' in the cap g. One side of the cap g is rovided with a tubular casing is provided at its outer end with an inwardly directed flangeor rim W, and in the opening thus formed is placed a sleeve m, the inner end of which is provided with an outwardly directed flange or rim m 1 The plate-j is provided with a shank or spindle 3' the outer end of which passes t rough the casing k" and the sleeve m and is movable in said. sleeve, and. said. shank or spindle is p'rovidml with a collar 7' adapted to bear on the inner end of said sleeve, and between the collar 7' and the cap 9 is placed a spiral spring a, and between the flange of the sleeve m and the cap 1 is placed a similar spring 0. The spring n normally holds the plate in a position shown in Fig. 1, in which position the perforations h and 'i are both closed. If the spindle or shank be forced inwardly to the outer end of the s eeve m, the perforations h and h in the cap g and plate 9' will register, and the salt may be discharged from the holder a in the usual manner.

'If it is desired to discharge the pepper, both the shank j and the sleeve m are forced inwardly until the outer end of said shank and the outer end of the sleeve m are flush with the outer end of the casing k, in which position of the parts the perforations t and '17 in the cap 9 and plate will register and the pepper may be discharged. In this last position of the parts the perforations h and k are closed and it will thus be seen that either the pep er or salt may be discharged separately an whenever desired, and it will also be seen that by forming the sleeve m and the shank j? of comparative lengths with reference to the casing k, the exact distances through which the plate "must be moved to discharge the salt, and also to discharge the pepper when desired, is easily determined and requires no calculation, all that is necessary, in order, to discharge the salt, being to force the end of the spindle or shank y' inwardly until it reaches the outer end of the sleeve m, and if it be desired to discharge the pepper both the spindle or shank 9' and the sleeve m are forced inwardly still further until this movement is stoppe by the outerend of the casing k.

' My improved combination salt and pepper holder is simple in construction and operation and comparatively inexpensive, and changes in, and modifications of the construction described may be made, within the 1 vided with a central vertica partition forming two separate vertical compartments and a cap adapted to closesaid com artments and the opposite side parts of which are rovided with perforations arranged in paral e1 transverse rows, said cap being provided with a sliding plate which is mounted thereunder and the o posite side parts of which are provided wit perforations arranged in transverse rows and which correspond with those in the ca tensional devices for holdin said plate so t at the perforations therein not register with those in the cap, and means whereby the movement of said plate one step, will cause the perforations in one plsg't thereof to register with the correspon g perforations in the cap, and the movement of said plate another step will cause the perforations in the other part of said plate to register with the corresponding perforations a in said cap.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 20th day of January 1908. I

' JOHN T. STAPLETON. Witnesses:

O. E. MULREANY, L. J. QUINN. 

